Rescue workers plucked more survivors to safety from trees and roofs on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.

U.S.-based equity funds attracted over
$3.6 billion in the week ended Wednesday, their second straight
week of inflows, according to Lipper data on Thursday, thanks to
the Federal Reserve's dovish stance on tightening interest
rates.

A Brazilian court in the
city of Nova Lima, Minas Gerais state, ordered mining company
Vale SA to halt operations at the iron ore complex of
Dique III in the state, according to a court document seen by
Reuters on Thursday.